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Jukka Zitting updated TIKA-626:
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Summary: Add an AbstractParser class (was: Add a BaseParser class)
Yes, AbstractParser makes more sense. At first I was thinking that this should
be like the DefaultHandler class in SAX that implements all methods and thus
isn't abstract. But after playing with this a bit I realized that all practical
Parser classes need to implement both the getSupportedTypes() and parse()
methods in any case, so there's little point in providing empty default
implementations of them.
Besides, we already have such an empty parser class in EmptyParser. That class
can't be used as a base class since it reduces the set of exceptions thrown
from parse().
> Add an AbstractParser class
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> Key: TIKA-626
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-626
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: parser
> Reporter: Jukka Zitting
> Assignee: Jukka Zitting
> Priority: Minor
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> The deprecated parse() method in the Parser interface causes quite a few
> repetitive method declarations in all parser classes, so to simplify things
> I'd like to introduce a BaseParser class that provides reasonable default
> implementations of all Parser methods and can be used as the base class of
> any Parser implementation. It would be analogous to the DefaultHandler class
> in SAX, and would also make it easier for us to introduce new Parser methods
> if needed later on without necessarily breaking too many existing Parser
> classes.
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